BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXTS ABOUT LESBIAN
PULP NOVELS OF THE 50s and 60's

Compiled by Laure Neuville (May 1996).
Placed on this site with permission of the author.

Author's Note: This is not an exhaustive bibliography on the subject.
It only contains the texts for which I had complete bibliographical
data. Wide surveys of lesbian literature such as Jeannette Foster's
Sex Variant Women in Literature or Bonnie Zimmerman's The Safe Sea of
Women generally have at least a few paragraphs about pulp novels; the
same goes for socio-historical surveys such as Lillian Faderman's Odd
Girls and Twilight Lovers or John D'Emilio's Sexual Politics, Sexual
Communities. Because the space given to pulp novels is minimal in these
books, they are not included here.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Lesbian Identity and Pulp Novels, Off our Backs, vol. IXX, no 8, August/September
1989, p. 10. [report on a paper given by Jane Lindsay Miller at the
National Women's Studies Association Conference, Towson State University,
Maryland, June 1989]

ADAMS, Kate. "Making the World Safe for the Missionary Position: Images
of the Lesbian in post-World War II America" in Lesbian Texts and Contexts:
Radical Revisions, Karla JAY and Joanne GLASGOW (eds), New York/London,
New York University Press, 1990, p. 255-274.

GRIER, Barbara (also known as Gene Damon). Lesbiana. Book reviews
from The Ladder , 1966-1972, Reno, Naiad Press, 1976. [The Lesbiana
columns, which were a monthly feature of The Ladder, started in March
1957. The ones published before December 1966 have not been collected,
but they often featured pulp titles.]

WEIR, Angela and WILSON, Elizabeth. The Greyhound Bus Station in the
Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture in New Lesbian Criticism. Literary
and Cultural Readings, Sally MUNT (ed.), New York/Oxford, Columbia University
Press, 1992, p. 95-113.